those eleven minutes.....

Today I am going to write my first blog as I was in no mood to study(which happens quite often...). I was thinking about the topic of my writing, suddenly my eyes fell on a book kept on my self nearby my bed . It was 'eleven minutes' by Paulo Coelho. While going through it I found the topic of my blog.....I thought what if I write about LOVE, although I would be the billionth person to write about it, and there had been hundreds of movies showing love in one way or the other. But it was the book in my hand which turned me from a college going boy to an Aristotle( only if i was present back then...).I am truly impressed by his writings, I had read some of them before 'The Alchemist' being one of them,but this was really different, a bit hatke......

It is a story about a prostitute(that's why my friend gave me ,as it involved many sex scenes) who is in search of true love. the theme seems a bit awkward but the way it is written is truly classic.Everybody is in search of love,but what is it? Is it all about sex? Is it all about those eleven mintutes the time needed in which one feels orgasm? Is it about kissing one another at the corner seat of a cinema hall( I have seen it many a times........and everytime I think what the hell have Shiv Sena activists done).Well who can answer them.....surely not me as I am still not in love. Here I would like to stop and quote from the book, an intellectual story about the begining of sex,it goes as follows:-
" Men and women were not as they are now,there was just one being, who was rather short,with a body and a neck,but his head had two faces,looking in different directions.It was as if two creatures had been glued back to back,with two set of sex organs,four legs and four arms.
The Gods, however were jealous,because of this creature.With four arms it could work harder,with two faces it was always vigilant and could not be taken by surprise, and its four legs meant that it could stand or walk for long periods at a time without tiring.Even more dangerous was the fact that the creature had two different sets of sex organs and needed no one else in order to countinue reproducing.
Zeus,the supreme lord of Olympus said" I have a plan to make these mortal lose some of their strength."
And he cut the creature in two with a lighting bolt,thus creating men and women.This greatly increased the population of the wold and at the same time weakened its inhabitant,because now they had to search for their lost half and embrace it and ,in that embrace,regain their former srength,their ability to avoid betrayal and stamina to walk for long periods of time and to withstand hard work.That embrace in which two bodies re-fuse to become one again is what we call sex."
Huh......that's Paulo Coelho for you. I was truly bowled out when i read the above quoted lines.Later in his book he wrote that what if we took out the ' eleven minutes' in which one feels orgasm from ones lifes. All these million dollar industy would turn to ash,there would be no gyms,hairdressers,slim suits and all back biting would have vanished.All we do is for those eleven minutes, we spend our whole life in search of that.........
I really began to think about the world without the eleven minutes and the consequences start coming into my mind.....No boy would stare at girls on the roadside,there would be no fight,no heartbreaking,no Devdas..........and finally no competition.Wouldn't the life be more merrier? I was amost my questions and in a vain hope of finding there answers.When my friend knocked the door of my room and broke my hypothetical world without those eleven minutes.......